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  • NuGet Package of the Week #9 - ASP.NET MiniProfiler from StackExchange rocks your world

    NuGet Package of the Week #9 - ASP.NET MiniProfiler from StackExchange rocks your world

    Jul 11
    22

    I LOVE great debugging tools. Anything that makes it easier for me to make a site correct and fast is glorious. I've talked about Glimpse, an excellent firebug-like debugger for ASP.NET MVC, and I've talked about ELMAH, and amazing logger and error handler. Now the triad is complete with MiniProfiler, my Package of the Week #9. Yes, #9. I'm counting System.Web.Providers as #8, so phooey. ;) Hey, have you implemented the NuGet Action Plan? Get on it, it'll take only 5 minutes: NuGet Action...

  • Redirecting Routes To Maintain Persistent URLs

    Redirecting Routes To Maintain Persistent URLs

    Feb 11
    03

    Over a decade ago, Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web instructed the world know that cool URIs don’t change with what appears to be a poem, but it doesn’t rhyme and it’s not haiku. What makes a cool URI? A cool URI is one which does not change. What sorts of URI change? URIs don't change: people change them. In a related article, URL as UI, usability expert Jakob Nielsen lists the following criteria for a usable site: a domain name that is easy to remember and easy to spell...

  • The MVC3 special sauce in POP Forums

    The MVC3 special sauce in POP Forums

    Jan 11
    24

    I was chatting with a friend about why, as much as I would rather not rewrite POP Forums for the bazillionth time, it has actually been a lot of fun, and smooth sailing on MVC. If you haven't been playing along at home, POP Forums is the forum app that I've been maintaining now since the days of ASP.old, in sites like CoasterBuzz. In late 2009, I decided I'd rewrite it from the ground up as an MVC app, but it was slow going after the birth of my child. But when I did find time to write code, e...

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